Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #3862: Switching off seamless mode makes VB window disappearhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862
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Host is Kubuntu 9.04, guest is XP SP3 with 2.2.2 guest additions.
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Steps to reproduce:
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<ul><li>Start guest; it was last not in seamless mode, so it starts in its own window.
</li><li>Host-L to go to seamless mode.
</li><li>Host-L to go back to its own window.
</li><li>Guest window doesn't appear, and neither do any programs' windows that were displaying on the guest's desktop.
</li><li>VB is still sort-of responding: If I "explicitly" switch to the VB window using the KDE taskbar, and then press Host-L, VB switches back to seamless mode.
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Trac 0.12dimitrisTue, 28 Apr 2009 19:26:50 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862
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log from a run that started in non-seamless mode and was switched back and forth a few times.
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TicketdimitrisTue, 28 Apr 2009 20:36:57 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862
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Updated log, running the Jaunty version of VB
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TicketdimitrisTue, 28 Apr 2009 20:40:49 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:1
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I originally reported this using the Intrepid build. I noticed there are Jaunty-specific builds available on the download server, so I installed that instead. The problem remains, with one apparent change:
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When I switched from seamless to normal mode, I had a command window open on the guest's desktop. That was displayed now, but cropped smaller than its size and much smaller than the VB window size.
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TicketdiaferoMon, 11 May 2009 16:15:03 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:2
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:2
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I have exactly the same issue with the same system: Kubuntu 9.04 with KDE 4.2.2, no matter whether compositing is enabled or disabled, X.Org X Server 1.6.0.
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When I disable seamless windows, the parts which were transparent in seamless mode stay transparent, just the windows size is fixed. I have to reboot the system (which is hard as I have to make sure the right parts of the screen are actually shown when disabling seamless mode) to fix the issue.
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TicketdiaferoMon, 11 May 2009 16:15:26 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862
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log file when reproducing the issue
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TicketdiaferoMon, 11 May 2009 16:18:29 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:3
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just the windows size is fixed.
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I just noticed that even that is not done correctly: The menu bar at the top and the icons at the bottom do appear, but the window does *not* get a title bar after leaving seamless mode.
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TicketceseraSun, 17 May 2009 22:34:18 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:4
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:4
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I have more or less the same problem. With a Windows XP guest (with the taskbar at the top) when I switch back out of seamless mode, all I can see is the outline of the taskbar in dark blue and the outline of the full VB windows as a very light transparent box, but no menubar, title bar, taskbar or window edges.
With a Ubuntu client I cannot see anything but the transparent box.
In both cases I have to use "VBManage vmcontrol &lt;vm&gt; poweroff" to shut the vm down.
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This is on a Kunbuntu Jaunty 64 bit host.
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TicketdimitrisSat, 30 May 2009 17:12:22 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:5
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:5
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This problem is still present with VB 2.2.4.
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TicketlispnikTue, 30 Jun 2009 17:55:02 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:6
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I can reproduce this problem on <a class="wiki" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> 2.2.4 and 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 (log attached).
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TicketlispnikTue, 30 Jun 2009 17:56:15 GMTattachment sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862
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TicketShirakawasunaWed, 28 Oct 2009 06:48:07 GMThttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:7
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:7
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I can confirm similar behavior in 3.0.8 on archlinux in both Windows XP and Windows 7 Guests. To ensure that the behavior is the same: switching to seamless mode works fine, switching back to windowed results in a loss of large portions of the window and no window border. The only way to recover is to switch back to seamless mode or to save the state and resume.
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TicketfrankTue, 28 Jul 2015 17:08:21 GMTstatus, description changed; resolution sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3862#comment:8
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changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em>
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set to <em>obsolete</em>
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modified (<a href="/ticket/3862?action=diff&amp;version=8">diff</a>)
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